Three scientists were chosen for this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry, including Weizmann Institute of Science Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly Professor Ada Yonath along with American scientists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz. They will share the award prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million).
Ynet reports that she was a co-recipient of the 2006 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, along George Feher, and in 2008, became the first Israeli to win a lifetime’s achievement award from L’Oréal and UNESCO for her vital work identifying how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
13 Responses
Good grief. You manage to make a cholent out of anything. Her name is Ada Yonath, not “Yonath Ribosome”!
The correct name of the scientist is Ada Yonath, and she was awarded the Nobel Prize for mapping the structure and function of the Ribosome, which is the cell protein factory.
Her name is NOT Yonath Ribosome! Her Name is Ada Yonath. Ribosomes are what she is working on.
Her name is Dr. Ada Yonath. Ribosome is the cell organelle that she studied.
Mazal tov. Mi k’amcha
YWN EDITOR!!! – EMBARRASSING MISTAKE!!! Please correct scientist’s name per my earlier comment.
Her name is Ada Yonath. “Ribosome” is a cellular structure that the winners were studying.
Big deal. Let’s see Professor Ribosome finish Shas.
HELLLLOOOO YWN: – You printed all the above comments but still didn’t correct your error!!!
The yiddisha brain once again, a winner.
I agree with #8. Eilu v’eilu. And if it’s true that the name is not Dr. Ribosome there are bigger tzoros in the world than that.
Gutten Moed.
#8, While generally it is good to hear opposing views, I have heard that if you change the name, you change the Yid. Life can be tough but who would want to be demoted to a ribosome?
I guess your editor is off for chol ha’moed.